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  1. old nurse
    Any player that is a rental should cost a player with a little bit better potential than a late first round pick. The Twins have plenty of those type of prospects without denting the farm system. A player with some level of control past the contract will require prospect capital. People have cited the Chris Archer trade as it is going to cost a lot. The Cole trade shows that sometimes it just costs a lot of bodies. It depends on the skill of the trader.
  2. old nurse
    The experts did not put Deeds in a top 10 http://www.startribune.com/a-look-back-prospect-lists/111022994/
  3. old nurse
    Look hard and see what you are buying and selling. Houston gave up really nothing to get Verlander and Cole. Sale could have been considered stolen at this point. Archer was bought high with two prospects that worked out. Sell every player on the team if you can make that kind of trade. Which prospects does a team trade. The ones that other teams value more than you do. Prospects from a position of strength, The ones who will not be future all stars.
  4. old nurse
    Giving up your 176th best prospect could be a huge mistake.
  5. old nurse
    It was noted somewhere that he has had issues since childhood. If he has something like Chrohn's disease it was not a stretch.
  6. old nurse
    Pitching doesn't have to be expensive. Verlander cost nothing for Houston. The criteria is another team overvaluing your prospects Darvish really cost very little. 2 lottery tickets and a prospect with major league experience ranked outside the top 20 is not a great catch Given Bumgarner's no trade list, the Twins would have little competition for his services.
  7. old nurse
    Most Twins prospects aren't worth much. True. True for every organization in baseball. Including Dominican teams every organization has over 6 teams. Most players are not going to sniff a big league team unless they were ball boys in their youth. Fangraphs list 40 some players with a potential to be major league players, Sickels about 70 . There is value in that many players. There is value in a player having some sort of potential. A team can not trade for another player without having something to trade. Deluded? We statement. OK
  8. old nurse
    If you clear out some of the prospects that will be rule 5 eligible it would be a great trade.
  9. old nurse
    Is Colome better than Magill, Little or Morin? If all you give up are a few of the prospects that are lottery tickets then the team is better and you would be foolish not to make the trade.
  10. old nurse
    The Verlander trade shows that giving up medium prospects does not hurt your team. When Verlander did not immediately say yes to a trade to a team that has 7 current or former all stars on it and a former Cy Young winner that was a legitimate contender there is not much evidence to say he would have accepted a trade to the Twins coming off how many 90 loss seasons playing better than anyone expected. Given the top prospect list from 2017 https://www.minorleagueball.com/2016/11/8/13555840/minnesota-twins-top-20-prospects-for-2017 how many would have been missed in the system? Garver for sure, Likely Kirillloff, maybe on Romero Gonsalves or Thorpe but would not have missed it if one of them was traded at this time. The trade that was made that the Twins fans here should be mad about would be the Gerrit Cole trade. Near major league ready prospects or brief appearance prospects were traded. Moran has been a league average 3b
  11. old nurse
    A fresh voice instructing you on the same thing might be the first thing to consider. Different systems, same message. The second is that the voice has a little more weight from a team on a winning streak rather than a losing one. You also have to remember that Ryan was all Texan. Happy players play better.
  12. old nurse
    There is a premise that prospect rankings mean something more than the player has a Chance. Drew Henson sat near the top of these lists for a long time. That someone thought superstar is on them, not Sano. It is hard to be a failure as a superstar when the player never achieved it. Some players develop slower than others, see Nelson Cruz.
  13. old nurse
    Looked good. Until he did not
  14. old nurse
    Teams agree verbally to contracts. From MLB.com here are the penalties for going over A team that outspends its pool by 0-5 percent pays a 75 percent tax on the overage. At higher thresholds, clubs lose future picks: a first-rounder and a 75 percent tax for surpassing their pool by more than 5 and up to 10 percent; a first- and a second-rounder and a 100 percent tax for more than 10 and up to 15 percent; and two first-rounders and a 100 percent tax for more than 15 percent. In six years with these rules, teams have outspent their allotments a total of 95 times, but never by more than 5 percent. The sad tale of Brady Aikin, Jacob Nix Mac Marshal and the Astros. Ailin agreed to a below slot value which allowed the Astros to offer Jerome Nix and Marshall a 1.5 million dollar signing bonus. 2 parties with verbal agreements in place. The fateful MRI on Aiikin caused the Astros to lower their offer. Aiikin refused to sign. They couldn't sign Nix. In the end each player lost out on around a million dollars each. They also ended up each with UCL damage and missing time.. Houston came out way ahead. The following year they drafted Bregman in the second slot.
  15. old nurse
    Duffey=Pressly, there is a stretch.
  16. old nurse
    The 78 ad highlighted 4 players, one was gone after that season, one gone in the middle of the next season, one a never developed. It shows why they are not showing ads highlighting players. Players go, the game itself stays. Interesting that they did not edit Dozier out of the commercial. I would guess running an ad in the game they would expect the people watching to already know who Rosario, Berrios and Buxton are.
  17. old nurse
    The ad labeled current is history, although recent. The ne from 1978, the team does not need that advertisement ever again. petty much anyone in that commercial went on to a bad year The Lumber Co went on to hit 80 some HR, ranking 14th out of 14 teams
  18. old nurse
    It is kind of early to make any greay judgements on the Twins bullpen, or many other facets of the team. With about a third of their schedule against 2 of the worst teams in baseball it is hard to have a clear picture. They have had only one blown save. The pitchers used in high leverage situations have all performed except for Mejia. . The back end is not as lights out as one would like. The front end is not as deep as one would like. Almost every team has that problem.
  19. old nurse
    228 PA against right handers, 107 against LH. Started 82 games, appeared in 102. I don't think the numbers would begin to support your statement
  20. old nurse
    Pazsos went to the Rockies
  21. old nurse
    Does 18 words make up the entirety of a person? 6 innings against one of the best offensive teams does not mean the entirety of what a player can be or is.
  22. old nurse
    Kepler in a small sample size of 27 AN has an OPS of .870. I wouldn't call it a failure to put him there Buxton has led off an inning 12 times and had better results. Buxton could be moved up to wherever Gonzales is batting. Batting 6th might not have the pressure of leading off a game yet is important.
  23. old nurse
    With MLB playing games in the rain the pitchers are going to have to learn the spitball.
  24. old nurse
    Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
  25. old nurse
    Ah fandom. Garver has a couple of good games there is the love. When Garver has a couple bad games in a row, out will come the pitchforks.
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